June 15, 2019
11:05 a.m.
On 2019-06-15 16:15:20 (+0800), Paul Eggert wrote:
On Thursday, Kjell Ove Hveding, who lives in Sommarøy, Norway (latitude 70°N, population 321), formally petitioned his parliamentarian to abolish civil time in the town. Assuming this becomes law and common practice (which does not appear likely), I suppose we'd need to create a new entry for the region of Norway that switches to having no civil time whatsoever. (The tzdb convention for this is UTC with the abbreviation "-00".)
Wouldn't LMT be more appropriate in this (unlikely) situation? Though at that latitude ... umm. :) Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises